Question

I have Ruby code that looks vaguely like this.

str = 2010-12-02_12-10-26
puts str
puts DateTime.parse(str, "%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")

I expected to get the actual time from the parse. Instead, I’m getting output like this…

2010-12-02_12-10-26
2010-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

How do I get the time parsed in as well?

Answer 1

This works:

str = "2010-12-02_12-10-26"
puts str
puts DateTime.strptime(str, "%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")

This example on Codepad.

According to the documentation parse:

Create a new DateTime object by parsing from a String, without specifying the format.

And strptime:

Create a new DateTime object by parsing from a String according to a specified format.